1. Denis James Evans was born on 19 April 1951 and is an Australian scientist who is an emeritus professor at the Australian National University and honorary professor at The University of Queensland.
12 Facts About Denis Evans
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Denis Evans is widely recognised for his contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the simulation of nonequilibrium fluids.
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Denis Evans was a CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 1977, a Research Fellow at Cornell University from 1977 to 1978 and a Fulbright Fellow at the National Bureau of Standards during 1979 and 1980.
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Denis Evans was appointed as Research Fellow in the Ion Diffusion Unit of the ANU Research School of Physics at the Australian National University in 1979 and joined the ANU Research School of Chemistry in 1982.
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Denis Evans was Academic Director of the ANU Supercomputer Facility from 1989 to 1992, Dean of the ANU Research School of Chemistry from 1998 to 2007 and Convenor of the ANU College of Science from 2005 to 2007.
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Denis Evans was elected as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1994, was awarded a Centenary Medal from the Australian Government in 2000, and was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2016.
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From 1989 to 2016 Denis Evans was Professor of Chemistry and Leader of the Liquid State Chemical Physics group in the Research School of Chemistry at The Australian National University.
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Denis Evans is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the ANU Research at the School Physics and Engineering, and a member of the ANU Energy Change Institute.
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Denis Evans is best known for his contributions to the statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems including the derivation and experimental validation of the Fluctuation theorem which is an extension of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and his development of algorithms for nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations.
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Denis Evans has over 350 publications on nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, dynamical systems theory as applied to bulk systems, irreversible thermodynamics, computer simulation algorithms for nonequilibrium systems, the relation of the intermolecular potential function to macroscopic fluid properties and molecular rheology.
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Denis Evans has developed nonequilibrium simulation methods including the SLLOD algorithm for the study of shear flow, the Evans' method for heat flow, the colour conductivity method for the determination of self diffusion.
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Denis Evans is well known for the development of links between the theory of chaos and properties of fluids including the development of the Conjugate Pairing Rule.